Mary B. Ansari Best Geoscience Research Resource Work Award
Call for Nominations
The GSIS Best Research Resource Award Committee is seeking your nominations for the annual Mary B. Ansari Best Research Resource Award for the best geosciences research resource publication or website. The award recognizes geoscience research resource works or works focused on information aspects of the geosciences. As of 2016, the Best Website award has been rolled into this award, so if there’s a great website you’re aware of, feel free to nominate it.
Submissions will be evaluated using the following criteria:
The work must have been published or produced within 3 years preceding the GSIS annual meeting. The title does not have to strictly be “geoscience” but it should have significant value to the geoscience information community. Local or specialized works can be considered if they are particularly high in quality and could serve as a model for other works. Formats other than monograph and websites may be considered, for example tweets, online communities, maps, databases, etc. Any works nominated should be in a generally useable format (DVD, online, etc.), be generally available for purchase by libraries, and, theoretically, have a stable future. Although no work is specifically excluded from consideration, textbooks or monographs in geoscience or library/information science would not normally be considered.
Please send nominations to the chair of the committee: cklenke@unr.edu
2023
Volume 88: Diamond: Genesis, Mineralogy and Geochemistry. (2022). Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry. http://www.minsocam.org/msa/rim/rim88.html
Editors: Smit, K., Shirey, S., Pearson, G., Stachel, T., Nestola, F., & Moses, T., (Editors)
ISBN 978-1-946850-10 & doi: https://doi.org/10.2138/rmg.2022.88.00
2022
Strata: William Smith’s Geological Maps
Edited By the Oxford University Museum of Natural History
2020, Chicago, University of Chicago Press
ISBN 9780226754888.
2021
The Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Environmental Knowledge
Edited By Thomas F. Thornton, Shonil A. Bhagwat
1st Edition, 2020, London, Imprint Routledge
eBook ISBN 9781315270845. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315270845
2020
Vanishing Ice: Glaciers, Ice Sheets, and Rising Seas by Vivien Gornitz was honored with the 2020 Mary B. Ansari Best Geoscience Research Resource Award. Published by Columbia University Press in 2019, the book explores the dramatic changes in Earth’s cryosphere and the consequences of ice loss and sea-level rise for the human world. Gornitz is a Special Research Scientist (retired) at Columbia University’s Center for Climate Systems Research and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. The Ansari Award has been given annually since 1988 and recognizes an outstanding reference work published in the field of geoscience information during the previous three years.
2019
White, Sam, Pfister, Christian, Mauelshagen, Franz (Eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Climate History 2018, ISBN-10: 1137430192; ISBN-13: 978-1137430199
2018
Martin P. A. Jackson and Michael R. Hudec. Salt Tectonics – Principles and Practice. Cambridge University Press, 2017.
2017
Jan Harff, Martin Meschede, Sven Petersen, and Jörn Theide, editors. Encyclopedia of Marine Geosciences. Springer, 2016.
2016
W. Jack Rink and Jeroen Thompson, editors. Encyclopedia of Scientific Dating Methods. Springer, 2015.
2015
Roger L. Putnam, Allen F. Glazner, Bryan S. Law, and Greg M. Stock. Geologic Map of the Southeast Face of El Capitan, Yosemite Valley, California. Geological Society of America, 2014.
2014
Heinrich D. Holland and Karl K. Turekian, editors-in-chief. Treatise on Geochemistry, 2nd edition. Elsevier, 2013.
2013
Henry R. Frankel. The Continental Drift Controversy. Cambridge University Press, 2012.
2012
Robert Yeats. Active Faults of the World. Cambridge University Press, 2012.
2011
Geoffrey Davies. Mantle Convection for Geologists. Cambridge University Press, 2011.
2010
S. Ross Taylor and Scott McLennan. Planetary Crusts: Their Composition, Origin and Evolution. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
2009
O. Richard Norton and Lawrence A. Chitwood. Field Guide to Meteors and Meteorites. Springer, 2008.
2008
Lucy-Ann McFadden, Paul Weissman, and Torrence Johnson, editors. Encyclopedia of the Solar System. Academic, 2007.
2007
Scott A. Elias, editor-in-chief. Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science. Elsevier, 2007.
2006
Felix M. Gradstein, James G. Ogg, and Alan G. Smith, editors. A Geologic Time Scale, 2004. Cambridge University Press, 2004
2005
James Holton, John Pyle, and Judith Curry, editors. Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences. Academic, 2003.
2004
H.D. Holland and K.K. Turekian (executive editors). Treatise on Geochemistry. Elsevier Pergamon, 2004.
2003
Paul Murdin (editor). Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Nature Publishing Group, 2001.
2002
Mark D. Spalding, Corinna Ravilious, and Edmund P. Green. World Atlas of Coral Reefs. University of California Press, 2001.
2001
Ronald Singer (editor). Encyclopedia of Paleontology. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1999.
2000
Haraldur Sigurdsson (editor). The Encyclopedia of Volcanoes. Academic Press, 1999.
1999
James H. Shirley and Rhodes W. Fairbridge (editors). The Encyclopedia of Planetary Sciences. Chapman & Hall, 1997.
1998
Ronald Greeley and Raymond Batson. The NASA Atlas of the Solar System. Cambridge University Press, 1997.
1997
Stephen H. Schneider (editor-in-chief). Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather. Oxford University Press, 1996.
1996
Thomas J. Ahrens (editor). A Handbook of Physical Constants. American Geophysical Union, 1996.
1995
Tom Simkin and Lee Siebert. Volcanoes of the World: A Regional Directory, Gazetteer, and Chronology of Volcanism During the Last 10,000 Years. Geoscience Press, 1994.
1994
John Sinkankas. Gemology: An Annotated Bibliography. Scarecrow Press, 1992.
1993
William A. Nierenberg (editor-in-chief). Encyclopedia of Earth Systems Science. Academic Press, 1992.
1992
Grant Heiken, David Vaniman, and Bevan M. French (editors). Lunar Sourcebook: a User’s Guide to the Moon. Cambridge University Press, 1991
1991
David Weishampel, Peter Dodson and Halszka Osmolska. The Dinosauria. University of California Press, 1990.
1990
Willard Lincoln Roberts, Thomas J. Campbell, George R. Rapp and Wendell E. Wilson. Encyclopedia of Minerals, 2nd edition. Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1990.
1989
William J. Frazier and David R. Schwimmer. Regional Stratigraphy of North America. Plenum Press, 1987.
1988
Carl Seyfert (editor). The Encyclopedia of Structural Geology and Plate Tectonics. Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1987.